Collar button



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' L. L. MANN COLLAR BUTTON Filed Sept. 27. 1923 Hyg.

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UNITED` STATES LESLIE L. MANN', OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

COLLAR BUTTON.

Application filed September 27, 1923. Serial No. 665,167.

T o aZZ 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, LESLIE L. MANN, citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto improvements in collar buttons preferably the type used in the front of the shirt neck band. The primary object of this invention is to provide a collar button which is so constructed that its base will at all times snugly engage the adjacent portion of the neck band, thereby renderingy the same comfortable to the wearer.

It is likewise an object to provide a collar button of this character, wherein the shank or neck connecting the base and head is tapered so as to direct the portions being connected by the button into snug engagement with the base and prevent twisting of the button as is common in the present day form of collar button.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

In order that the construction and application of this invention may be clearly understood, I have in the accompanying drawings and detailed description based thereon,

set out a preferred and modified form of the invention.

In these drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a collar button constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation, in which the neck band and the overlapping ends of the collar are shown in position, and

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a slightly modified form.

Having more particular reference to the drawings throughout which similar characters of reference designate similar parts, this improved collar button may be stated as comprising a preferably though not necessarily fiat disk base 6, a head 7, which, as shown in Fig. 1 may be flat, and a neck or shank 8 connecting the base and head and increasing in cross-sectional area from the base 6 to said head 7 as shown in Fig. 1. The connecting shank presents a substantially truncated cone-shaped appearance. In the drawings, Fig. 5 shows a slight modi- 55 ication in that the sides of the shank 8 are straight instead of being slightly curved as in preferred form. The action of both forms upon the front of the neck band or collar being connected is practically identical.

In using the collar button, the neck band and collar are attached thereto in the usual manner. Ordinarily there is a tendency for a collar button to twist or move inwardly and bear upon the neck of the wearer, either of which will naturally cause considerable discomfort to the wearer.

Due to the particular construction of the connecting shank 8 in this collar button, the portions of the neck band directly engaged with the button Awill be at all times forced against the base, because of the tapering of said neck or shank as clearly shown in Fig. et of the drawings. It is quite apparent from a study of this figure that an increased pull in the opposite direction upon the neck band portions 9 and 10 and the overlapping collar portions 1l and 12 will result in moving the base 6 further away from the neck of the wearer; this being quite contrary to the ac- 30 tion of an ordinary collar button under similar conditions.

I have illustrated a button of this character in which the base and head are substantially Hat. It is quite obvious that va- S5 rions forms of this head and base may be readily employed.

I claim:

1. A collar button comprising a base, a head, and a shank connectin said base and head and being of greater 1,diameter at its juncture with the head, than at its juncture with the base.

2. A. collar button comprising a base, a head, and a shank connecting said base and head and .increased in cross-sectional area from the base to the head.

3. A collar button comprising a base, and a tapered shank connectingv the base and head whereby to snugly engage the base with the portions being buttoned.

4. A collar button comprising a flat disk base, a flat disk head of less diameter than In testimony whereof, I affix my signature the basema substantially tlJuncated oonein presence of two Witnesses.

sha e s an connectin the ase and head thersmall end of said shnk being connected LESLIE L' MANN' 5 to the base whereby to snugly engage the Witnesses:

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